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Marie KonMari Kondo runs an acclaimed consulting business in Tokyo helping clients transform their cluttered homes into spaces of serenity and inspiration.With a three-month waiting list, her KonMari Method of decluttering and organizing has become an international phenomenon. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is a best seller in Japan, Germany, and the UK, with more than two million copies sold worldwide, and has been turned into a television drama for Japanese TV. She has been featured on more than thirty major Japanese television and radio programs and in the Sunday Times, Red magazine, You magazine, and the Times, who has deemed her Japan's preeminent guru of tidiness, a warrior princess in the war on clutter.
#1 New York Times Best Seller Amazon's Best Book of 2014 in Crafts, Home & Garden Ms. Kondo delivers her tidy manifesto like a kind of Zen nanny, both hortatory and animistic. -- The New York Times . . . a literal how-to-heave-ho, and I recommend it for anyone who struggles with the material excess of living in a privileged society. (Thanks to Ms. Kondo, I kiss my old socks goodbye.) ... To show you how serious my respect for Ms. Kondo is: if I ever get a tattoo, it will say, Spark Joy! -- Jamie Lee Curtis, TIME This book lives up to its title: it will change your life. -- B.J. Novak, People This book is a cult. A totally reasonable, scary cult that works, doesn't kill people (a bonus), but does drastically change your life. In this case -- for the better. -- Buzzfeed The most organized woman in the world. -- PureWow . . . the Japanese expert's ode to decluttering is simple and easy to follow. -- Vogue.com . . . her voice . . . is by turns stern and enchanted, like a fairy godmother for socks. -- The Wall Street Journal Reading it, you glimpse a glittering mental freedom from the unread/uncrafted/unworn, buyer's remorse, the nervous eyeing of real estate listings. Life's overwhelm, conquered. -- The Atlantic All hail the new decluttering queen Marie Kondo, whose mess-busting bestseller has prompted a craze for tidying in homes across the world . . . one proper clear out is all you need for the rest of your life. -- Good Housekeeping (UK) How could this pocket-sized book, which has already sold over 2 million copies and sits firmly atop the New York Times Best Seller list, make such a big promise? Here's the short answer: Because it's legit. . . . Kondo's method really can change your life -- if you let it. -- TODAY.com Kondo challenges you to ask yourself whether each object you have is achieving a purpose. Is it propelling you forward or holding you in the past? -- USA Today . . . a brief and bracing practical guide to tidying up your home. -- Financial Times [It is] enough to salute Kondo for her recognition of something quietly profound: that mess is often about unhappiness, and that the right kind of tidying can be a kind of psychotherapy for the home as well as for the people in it . . . Its strength is its simplicity. -- The London Times
